Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series
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1 Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series China s Agricultural Development and Policies: Are There Lessons for Africa and Other Developing Countries? ScoC Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow, co- director, Rural EducaLon AcLon Program (REAP) Stanford University April 17, 2013 Stanford University
2 China s Agricultural Development and Policies: Are There Lessons for Africa and Other Developing Countries? Scott Rozelle, Stanford University Jikun Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 What is the ultimate goal of Development / Growth?
4 What is the ultimate goal of Development / Growth? Become a modern, rich, industrialized nation
5 But, it starts with agriculture Schultz / Mellor and Johnston / Others Agriculture provides income for farm households: To build housing To invest in education for kids To finance move off the farm (and move into the city) For starting self-employed enterprises It is a source of demand in the early stages of industrialization
6 What has African agriculture (until recently) looked like over the past three decades? Almost no agricultural growth Almost no off-farm employment growth Almost no income growth (let s look at some pictures of some lost decades)
7 Agricultural TFP Accumulated Five-Year Growth Rates decade 1 decade 2 decade 3 6 Five Year Periods during the Dark Decades
8 Agricultural TFP Accumulated Five-Year Growth Rates Almost no agricultural growth decade 1 decade 2 decade 3 6 Five Year Periods during the Dark Decades
9 New off farm employment (share of rural population) % decade 1 decade 2 decade 3 6 Five Year Periods during the Dark Decades
10 New off farm employment (share of rural population) Almost no employment growth % decade 1 decade 2 decade 3 6 Five Year Periods during the Dark Decades
11 Annual Growth Rates Rural Income decade 1 decade 2 decade 3
12 Annual Growth Rates Rural Income Almost no rural income growth decade 1 decade 2 decade 3
13 The summary of the record of these lost decades Almost no agricultural growth Almost no off-farm employment growth Almost no income growth
14 So: This is the problem that we (the world, the USAID s and DFID s, the Gates Foundations, the African Governments themselves, academics in the US, Africa, elsewhere) are working on: we want to take these anemic results and turn them into
15 30 years of 10% growth
16 Is it possible?
17 China s Agricultural TFP 1950 to 1979 Accumulated Five-Year Growth Rates Almost no agricultural growth decade 1 decade 2 decade
18 China s new off farm employment (share of rural population) 1950 to 1979 Almost no employment growth % decade 1 decade 2 decade
19 China s Rural Income Growth 1950 to 1979 Annual Growth Rates Rural Income Almost no rural income growth decade 1 decade 2 decade s 1960s 1970s
20 The summary of the record of China during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s Almost no agricultural growth Almost no off-farm employment growth Almost no income growth These were China s Lost Decades
21 Is it possible after three decades of NO GROWTH to launch a miracle? Of course, this is what we are hoping for in the case of Africa and other places in the developing world!
22 30 years of stagnation 30 years of 10% growth Income / capita
23 30 years of stagnation 30 years of 10% growth Income / capita
24 Today s presentation is about how China took: zero growth in TFP zero transformation & zero growth in income and made it into what China is today And think about some of the lessons if there are any for Africa
25 Strategy of the Presentation 1. The Record of China s Past 2. Driving Forces: China s Policy Menu & Impacts 3. What China Did NOT Do Some lessons to learn to follow Some lessons to learn to avoid 4. Policy Lessons for Africa?
26 Part 1. The Record of China s Past
27 Average annual growth rate (%) of agricultural GDP Average annual growth rate in agricultural GDP was about 4 times of population growth rates.
28 Grain and cotton production in Grain (million tons) Cotton (1000 tons)
29 Production of oil and sugar crops Oil crops (1000 tons) Sugar crops (million tons)
30 Vegetables and fruit Vegetable area (1000 ha) Fruit outputs (million tons)
31 Shares of output values within agricultural sector, , (%) Livestock and fishery have grown even faster
32 Overall Increase in Off-farm Work In 2011 more than 90% of households have at least 1 family member (or son / daughter) working off the farm 71% 2011 In 1980: only 4% worked full time off the farm
33 Annual Real Hourly Wage (1978 dollars) Unskilled wage $2.00 / hour in / hour in Park and Cai, 2008
34 How Expensive are Chinese Workers? Manufacturing Wages (USD/year) China Philippines Thailand China India Indonesia Philippines Thailand China Of course, as we will Source: see later International in the Labor presentation, Organization LABORSTA this also Database has implications for farming Indonesia India
35 Per capita income in real term (1978=100) But, in all but the poorest households, most of the income (and most of the INCREASE in income) is coming from off farm sector
36 Part 2: Driving Forces: China s Policy Menu & Impacts What are major driving forces of success of China s agriculture in the past? What role did policy play?
37 Major driving forces (in past three decades 1980 to today) Institutional reform Market liberalization Investment into agricultural sector Irrigation Technology Other
38 2a. Institutional reform (incentives)
39 Nature of Reforms (1) 1950s / 1960s / 1970s China s Farmers in Communes Land belongs to others 40,000 communes [before] Decollectivization (1978 to 1984) 200,000,000+ million farms [after] [Every rural resident (900,000,000 of them) has land] Almost all farms are family farms Farm size: 1 mu per person
40 Performance from 1950s to 1970s More than 80% of population in rural sector Subsistence agriculture more than 80% of rural rely fully on farming Undiversified agriculture: grain / grain / grain Although yields rose (mostly due to increasing water control and increasing labor input into farming (more than 200 days per hectare of labor input) Ag growth; Off-farm employment; Income/capita growth = ZERO
41 Nature of Reforms (1) 1950s / 1960s / 1970s China s Farmers in Communes Land belongs to others 40,000 communes [before] Decollectivization or HRS (1978 to 1984) 200,000,000+ million farms [after] [Every rural resident (900,000,000 of them) has land] Almost all farms are family farms Although farm size was small: 1 mu per person
42 1 mu = area from 0 12 yard line How big is a mu? The average size of a farm in China is 5 people x 1 mu = 5 mu or less than the size of the football field that the Cardinal play on
43 Nature of Reforms (1) 1950s / 1960s / 1970s China s Farmers in Communes Land belongs to others 40,000 communes [before] Decollectivization or HRS (1978 to 1984) 200,000,000+ million farms [after] [Every rural resident (900,000,000 of them) has land] Almost all farms are family farms Although farm size was small: 1 mu per person right to choose crop + inputs right to income
44 IMPACT of HRS on Total Factor Productivity for rice, wheat and maize in China, Maize Wheat Rice Institutional change (HRS) was major source of TFP growth in Source: Jin et al., 2002, AJAE
45 2b. Market liberalization
46 2b. Market liberalization Market support policies POLICY AGENDA: Dismantled Parastatals (State-owned trading companies) Deregulated Trading Rules Invested in Roads Invested in Communications
47 Did China s Markets Integrate? Use Corn and Soybean Marketing Regions and Flows as an example
48 Changes in corn price across China as markets increase its distance from port, 2000
49 Location of Major Corn Markets in Greater Mississippi Valley St. Louis Port New Orleans
50 US Corn Prices
51 Percentage change in price for every 1000 kilometers of distance from port Corn Soybean Rice China % -10% -10% % -9% -9% % -4% -7% US % -3.5% 8%
52 Guangzhou (Shekou Port) Dalian After 2000, prices of corn in Dalian and Guangzhou almost move perfectly together
53 Integration in China s Markets (percent of market pairs that have integrated price series) Corn Soybean When using statistical tests (on more than 800 pairs of markets), almost all markets move together in an integrated way, up from less than ½ in the early 1990s (when markets were NOT integrated)
54 What is the Impact of Rise of Markets Percent Rise of Specialization Share of villages reporting they specialize in a crop/livestock
55 What is impact on the poor? Area_cash crops = a0 + a1*poor + a2*z + e Output_cash crops = a0 + a1*poor + a2*z + e Income_cash crops = a0 + a1*poor + a2*z + e All things equal, do the poor benefit in this highly marketized world? Is a1 + or -? In four different studies (Hebei dairy; Shangdong apples; Shandong tomatoes; Shaanxi walnuts) a1 > 0 the poor have benefited in this super marketized world? Why? Millions of traders willing to go to furthest most remote places to make a sale
56 Integration at the border Agricultural tariff rates (%): Prior to WTO accession ( ) : 42% 21% China s WTO commitment ( ): 21% 11%
57 Nominal protection rates (%) in China, Milk/Dairy Wheat Soybeans Rice Pork / Vegetable This slide shows that while the prices of some commodities were much higher than world market prices in the 1980s (those commodities > 0) and many were way under world market prices (those commodities < 0)
58 Nominal protection rates (%) in China, by the 2000s, the prices of most of China s commodities were nearly equal to the prices of the same commodities on world markets this means that China is VERY OPEN these numbers are more close to those in Australia and New Zealand than Japan, Korea or Europe
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62 So China s record on trade liberalization is mixed On import side quite liberalized Average prices in China about the same as the world market prices But, on export side: Less variable than world market Use export restrictions when prices rise [+ large buffer stocks]
63 2c. Investment into agricultural sector Irrigation Technology Other
64 Expansion of irrigated land in China Million ha Nearly 50% of cultivated land
65 Surface irrigation
66 The state invested HEAVILY into surface water (construction and control)
67 The state invested HEAVILY into surface water (construction and control) BUT: groundwater was left to the private sector *** Virtually unregulated No water/pumping fees But, no subsidy of electricity
68 Share of Groundwater in the 1960s/1970s ZERO
69 Importance of Groundwater in China Water Supply by Source, 2002 North China Rest of China
70 And investment into Agricultural Research and Development (R&D) Most all PUBLIC
71 Impact of Investment and R&D on Total Factor Productivity for Rice, Wheat and Maize in China, Wheat Maize Rice After middle 1980s, technology has been major factor affecting productivity growth
72 Output, Input, and TFP annual growth rate and Decomposition of TFP Main Grain Commodities and Cotton ( ) Output rises Input reductions Total Factor Productivity Rises EIR LIR JR W M S C Mostly Technical Change (rising of production frontier) China is already operating efficiently (at frontier) Source: Jin, Huang and Rozelle. 2009
73 Output, Input, and TFP annual growth rate and Decomposition of TFP Main Grain Commodities and Cotton ( ) Output rises Input reductions Total Factor Productivity Rises EIR LIR JR W M S C Mostly Technical Change (rising of production frontier) China is already operating efficiently (at frontier) Source: Jin, Huang and Rozelle. 2009
74 Output, Input, and TFP annual growth rate and Decomposition of TFP Vegetables and Oranges ( ) Same story for vegetables and fruit!! Source: Jin, Huang and Rozelle. 2009
75 What is policy initiative? Government fiscal investment in agricultural research (billion yuan in 2005 price) Agricultural research investment intensity (%) in China Since 2000, the rise in research investment has been higher in China than any other country in the world
76 Agricultural biotech research investment (million yuan in 2003 price) 2003: 1.65 billion yuan = US$ 200 million or US$ 950 million in PPP Huang et al., 2005, April, Science The largest public investors in plant biotech in the world
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78 Non-Bt cotton Bt cotton Source: CAAS
79 Bt cotton areas in China, (thousand hectares) More than 5 million farmers adopted Bt cotton in 2003
80 Case study: Bt vs Non-Bt Samples locations ( ) The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to The image cannot open the be displayed. image, or Your computer the image may not have The image enough memory cannot be to open the displayed. The image Your The cannot be computer image displayed. may not have cannot Your enough be computer memory to displaye may not d. Your have comput er may not Shangdong: Jinagsu: Henan: Anhui: :Samples 1056 hhs
81 Case Study: Bt vs Non-Bt Cotton Inputs levels: No significant difference in: Fertilizer use Irrigation Machinery Harvest cost Significantly different in Pesticide use Labor use Seed price
82 Numbers of pesticide applications in Bt and non-bt cotton in Hebei and Shandong in reduced by 13 applications In 2000: by 12 applications In 2001: by 14 applications
83 Cotton yield (ton/ha): Bt vs non-bt cotton
84 Major findings on Bt cotton impacts in (per hectare) Reduce pesticide use: 34 kg 923 yuan Increase yield: 9.6% 930 yuan Increase seed cost: 570 yuan Reduce labor input: 41days 574 yuan Increase net income: yuan (US$ ) A net increase of about 30% this is a HUGE increase in productivity!
85 GM technology s benefits surpass the direct profitability metrics
86 Percentage (%) of poisonings reported as numbers of farmers interviewed in Henan in 2000
87 Summary of China s Ag Development and Status of Its Food Economy
88 China s success in a word Land to all (incentives to farmers) Foster Markets Do not over regulate markets Key: do not distort Invest in roads and communications Invest heavily in: Water Agricultural R&D
89 What China did NOT do
90 P They have not privatized cultivated land part of large urban/rural inequality
91 Barriers to privatization Ideology Loss of control Positive and negative effects - : less incentive to invest / build larger farmers / no asset base to build wealth +: state to use land for investment with more ease (case of high speed rail)
92 No subsidies of inputs (in 1980s or 1990s) No fertilizer subsidies No pesticide subsidies s High incentives to suppliers / no barriers in the market No water subsidies
93 General subsidies in recent years US farmer in Illinois in 2011: about US $50/acre China farmer in Sichuan in 2001: about US $80/acre But, at least through today, subsidies are given in a way that is non-distorting given as an income transfer to all farmers that have land (regardless of what is being planted regardless of whether the owner is cultivating the land or renting the land out subsidy goes to owner )
94 Agricultural subsidies (100 million yuan) Subsidies and supports have been rising significantly, reaching 3.1% of agricultural GDP in 2008
95 General subsidies in recent years US farmer in Illinois in 2011: about US $50/acre China farmer in Sichuan in 2011: about US $80/acre But, at least through today, subsidies are given in a way that is non-distorting given as an income transfer to all farmers that have land (regardless of what is being planted regardless of whether the owner is cultivating the land or renting the land out subsidy goes to owner )
96 Organization of production Have not used Coops Farmer organizations coops The government is afraid the a national system of coops might become focus of an opposition political party
97 And, these small farmers are mostly on their own Cooperative movement still small 8 % 2 % Percent of villages with Cooperatives / FAs Percent of households that belong to Cooperatives / FAs
98 Comparing with other nations: Percentage of Households Participating in Coops/FAs
99 Status of China s Economy China has solved Macro-nutrient Food Security Problem at the household level: > 3000 Kcal/day/person Absolute Poverty Rate (US$1.25/day): from 40% in 1980 to less than 5% today Huge structural transformation
100 Overall Increase in Off-farm Work In 2011 more than 90% of households have at least 1 family member (or son / daughter) working off the farm 71% 2011 In 1980: only 4% worked full time off the farm
101 Comparison of off-farm rates by age categories
102 Comparison of off-farm rates by age categories
103 Comparison of off-farm rates by age categories
104 Comparison of off-farm rates by age categories This is the REAL transformation
105 Investment into agriculture played key role in this transformation created a virtuous cycle Agriculture provided income for farm households: To build housing To invest in education for kids To finance move off the farm For starting self-employed enterprises It was a source of demand in the early stages of industrialization (in fact, early factories were set up in the rural areas) Off farm remittances and earnings from self-employed enterprises in turn financed agriculture at the household level: High rates of fertilizer use in the world (no credit needed) Investment by households in groundwater / pumps Investment by households into vegetable and fruit production Investment by entrepreneurs into custom plowing / harvesting High earnings from agriculture allow additional push off the farm
106 China s agriculture is NOT perfect (not by a long shot) Concerns & Challenges: Demand Side High demand for meat / fish / fruits / vegetables Serious food safety concerns Supply Side Land Water Small farm/ageing farmers (farmer-ettes) Rising wages Rising net imports (and National Food Security concerns)
107 What are the lessons for Africa? 1. Incentives are important Providing incentives are more important than formal property rights as long as farmers can be assured of the return to the effort, they will invest in farming activities Of course, more secure rights are better and will be needed to encourage investment in land-specific investments if State helps out in that (invest in irrigation / invest in rural roads), maybe can do without private land But, this can lead to equity problems.
108 2. Markets can be an effective tool of development. Markets can be pro-poor. Markets have integrated China s food economy. This has increased efficiency and has increased the income of the poor. What was the role of the government? Mostly Nothing: They got out of the way (shut down parastatals) They let private sector emerge without regulation No subsidies provided incentives for traders Actually the government was involved in indirect way: Investing in roads Investing in communications Enforcing free inter-province marketing
109 3. Greatest role for state: investment into public goods, especially into agricultural R&D however, state did not interfere (very much) into investments that could be (should be) made by households; China s government invested heavily into: Roads Water control surface systems Afforestation projects Agricultural technologies Agricultural extension Households took responsibility for investing into: Groundwater Orchards and Vegetable Production Machinery/Mechanization Input Supply
110 4. Getting the incentives right for the government Government officials were given incentives to promote growth and structural transformation. They became co-beneficiaries. There was an incentive to promote programs and encourage growth. China s system of promotion was based on past performance and education. Policies designed to promote younger officials. [But, are there lessons here? Is this the legacy of a one-party system with ambitious leaders at the top that have the goal of China becoming a world power and developed economy]
111 What countries can learn about what China s government did NOT do Setting up artificial barriers between rural and urban is extremely inefficient and creates high rates of inequality. This has not been a problem as long as there is growth. There are concerns that when growth slows, the high levels of inequality could lead to instability. Investment into rural health, nutrition and health is far from sufficient China got basic education done (taught rural individuals to read, write and be disciplined) but, there are high barriers keeping rural individuals now from getting the education that they will need as China tries to move from middle to high income.
112 Thank you